Reduce the time an IAP waits before failing to mesh point

‎09-04-201610:18 AM

In my lab, it takes about 15 minutes for an IAP225 to fail connecting to the VC and then attempt to mesh. It eventually meshes just fine but it takes forever. I've searched but I can't find a CLI command to reduce the time the IAP decides it isn't cabled to the network and try to mesh.

Re: Reduce the time an IAP waits before failing to mesh point

‎09-06-201608:59 PM

WiFi Uplink is not supported on any 11ac IAP currently (unless it was added VERY VERY recently). Are you creating the 'Bridge1' SSID for the mesh point to use? I think this config is causing some delays in the mesh coming up (likely), and you would need to default everything and JUST setup the basics. Stand up the two APs in the same cluster, disable the Extended SSID, make sure the cluster is formed, and then disconnect the mesh point and move it to the remote switch. If everything is in VLAN 1, there's no need to set the bridged interface to trunk either.

If the switch the mesh point is connected to is handing out DHCP, then the mesh point would never come up or could take a VERY long time to come up. Once you have a simple config (one client SSIDs, extended disablted), let it come up, then look to enable the ethernet bridge. Change one thing at a time so you know what broke. There's dozens of links here on setting up the mesh for IAP, just do the bare minimum first.